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Dear Barrie Karp,
"Nu" is Russian borrowed into Yiddish, but "nu, why" doesn't seem to
me to make any sense in either Russian or in Yiddish.
Carolyn Kunin
On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Barrie Karp wrote:
> I can't stop associating New Wye with the Yiddish "nu, why?"
>
> Has anyone else thought about this? Would VN have been making a
> Jewish joke? Did he make any other Jewish jokes?
>
> Barrie Karp
> NYC
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"Nu" is Russian borrowed into Yiddish, but "nu, why" doesn't seem to
me to make any sense in either Russian or in Yiddish.
Carolyn Kunin
On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Barrie Karp wrote:
> I can't stop associating New Wye with the Yiddish "nu, why?"
>
> Has anyone else thought about this? Would VN have been making a
> Jewish joke? Did he make any other Jewish jokes?
>
> Barrie Karp
> NYC
> Search the Nabokv-L archive with Google
>
> Contact the Editors
>
> All private editorial communications, without exception, are read
> by both co-editors.
>
> Visit Zembla
>
> View Nabokv-L Policies
>
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